Background

Mr. David P. Fialkow, J.D., is a Co-Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director at General Catalyst Partners. Mr. Fialkow focuses on growth equity investments in both early-stage and through the General Catalyst XIR platform in both new and existing technology businesses. His area of special interest includes consumer services, security and defense, and travel. He serves as a Business Advisor of Recruit Citizens, LLC. Prior to co-founding General ... Catalyst Partners, he co-founded and operated numerous businesses focused on building applied technology-based platforms and tools for the travel, information services, financial services, specialty retail, and payment processing industries at a number of firms including National Leisure Group Inc., Starboard Cruise Services, Alliance Development Group, and Retail Growth ATM Systems. He also co-founded Upromise. In 1998, he and Mr. Joel Cutler purchased a large interest in and built Miami Cruise Holdings. Mr. Fialkow served as an Associate at Thomas H. Lee Company and U.S. Venture Partners. He co-founded SmartBargains. He serves as a Director of Verne Global, Inc., DataLogix Holdings, Inc., Gamesville.com, Inc., OnForce, Inc., Upromise, Inc., CoachUp Inc.; CCP Games (alternate name CCP hf.); and Eons.com. He is also the Board member of Global Endowment Management. He has been a Director of Oceans Healthcare, L.L.C since January 29, 2013. He serves on several non-profit Boards including Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America, New England Chapter, Facing History and Ourselves, The Steppingstone Foundation, MIT Leadership Center Advisory Council, The Pan-Mass Challenge, Debate Mate, and The Boys and Girls Club of Boston, and serves as an Overseer at Beth Isreal Deaconess Hospital. He served as a Director of National Leisure Group, Inc., CLEAResult, SmartBargains, Inc., Vitrue, Inc., National Leisure, Grain Communications Group Inc., CCP hf., Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp., Rue La La, and Retail Convergence. He served as a Director of SmartLink Radio Networks Inc., and Revenio, Inc. Mr. Fialkow holds a J.D. from Boston College of Law and a holds a B.A. in Fine Arts with a concentration in Film from Colgate University.

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